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Milan Fashion Week – Menswear spring/summer 2008 |
The international menswear fashion shows kicked off on Saturday in Milan. After a mass, held in memory of Gianfranco Ferre, who died last week, such fashion houses as Jil Sander, Burberry Prorsum, Missoni, Gianni Versace and Bottega Veneta presented their collections for spring/summer 2008.
 The main highlight for Sunday’s catwalks included Ferre’s show that went ahead as planned. When the show was over the audience rose to their feet and applauded for about 10 minutes.
“Of couse I’m moved and the parade today was the right place to pay tribute to this personality who was in my view the only person capable of creating high-fashion level ready-to-wear,” Mario Boselli, president of the national fashion chamber, told AFP at the Milan show.
“My collection for men for spring-summer summons up discovery, development, research,” Ferre wrote in a statement. “Development of forms and search for new configurations, rounded although flawlessly executed, in the respect of a code proper to my way of ‘feeling’ male style.”
On Monday Valentino and Gucci, among others, showed their menswear collections. Giorgio Armani, Fendi, Etro, Marni, Calvin Klein and Trussardi will unveil their spring/summer collections in Italy’s fashion capital on Tuesday.
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